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Malicious Whispering

Five Girls Bought A Bouquet

Vienna, Feb. 10. Deciding to sharo revenge Just as they had shared dis- illusionment, Ove girls In Bel- grade, all promised matrimony by the same man and then be- trayed by kim, pooled their savings and bought a bomb.

The bomb wrecked the home of

the

betrayer,

Prasant name Ille, but he escaped and complained to the police.

The five girls were arrested to-day,

£500 FINE FOR FLYING WRONG FLAG

BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY HONGKONG residents who are preparing to celebrate the Coronation with flags and bunting need not be worried by the fact there is an English law extant which provides for a charge of treason or penalty of £500 for fly- ing the wrong flag.

Campaign

From A Special Correspondent London, Feb. 5.

The famous American pliysi- cian who has just declared that gossiping strengthens the lungs and accounts for the numerical superiority of widows over widowers ought to have been in London this week.

Qur pulmonary development dur ing the past seven days must have reached a physiological record..

It began on Sunday, as a sequel, you might loosely say, to Ittle phrenology, like this:

Love Laughs

At Boundarios

Barcelona, Feb. 18, A Russian couple who were divorced, In Barcelona to-day. Istrate the advantages of travel.

They were married in church

Istanbul (Constantinople), and later went through a civil marriage ceremony In Berlin.

The couple travel constantly md

avail themselves of the laws which best suit their purpose. In this caso it was the new Catalan law, which permilis divorce by mutual consent.-- United Press.

"A fantastic whispering campaign SURVEY SHOWS

of cruel and malicious gossip con- cerning the Duke of Kent is causing deep distress to the Royal Family and others involved ......"

That surely did set tongues wagging like pistons in a baby car engine. Next day, they had something more to accelerate on. The Admiralty un- nounced that "for the safety of the been men had

Royal Navy" five summarily dismissed from Service dockyards.

hours Twenty-four

later, Mr. Eden was telling a shocked House of Commons that Communists in this had been "recruiting" country

10 be drunken unemployed men slaughtered at the barricades of Mad- rid.

This law decrees that the flying of

Then Lady Ampthill (formerly a foreign flag above the Union Jack

Christabel Russell, of the is an net of treason "punishable by Mrs. imprisonment in a fortress or dun- "Russell baby case") had her decree The flying of the White En-nis! made absolute; the three leaders Bech, siga improperly renders the offender of Welsh Nationalism were sentenced at the Old Bailey for setting fire to ilable to a fine of £500.

In Great Britain the Lords Com-an R.A.F. camp; ex-Licut, Norman missioners of the Admiralty and Baillie-Stewart-once the "officer in other powers-that-be are taking a the Tower"-was released and frank- up from Nelson, and on Coronation by told the popular papers all about Day they will turn a blind eye to his four years' penal servitude. whatever flags are flown. It is pre- sumed local authorities will do the

same.

Union Jack

And so forth.

and bunting, colour Mr. Allen Speaks.

and ensign may all be raised in lion- our of the King.

WHITE ENSIGN

Properly the White Ensign is a flag worn by HM. ships of war in com micslon, and except by warrant granted to certain yacht clubs, by no one else.

The blue ensign is restricted too, but the red may be flown on any sizeble

ship

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Now I must explain about the phrenology—

On New Year's Eve, as you'll re- member, the Duke of Kent motored fashionable Mrs. "Bill" Allen from the West End down Fleet Street to have her "bumps read" at Mrs. Stacpoole O'Dell's Phrenological In- stitute.

A

press

photographer snapped Any British subject has the right thern and picture and story appeared London paper. to fly the Union Jack where he will. next morning in a

On the following day λ paper It should be struck at sunset.

As yet there is no British law carried right across its front page governing the origin of manufacturer banner beadline, "Who is Mrs. There followed the lady's of Union Jacks. That is entrusted to Allen?"

immaculately respectable, even dull, the patriotism of British subjects,

life story, illustrated by a charming portrait.

Human nature being what it

IF SCOTLAND shouldn't be, the result of this quite

IS ADRIFT Proof in 1942

GREENLAND GETTING

NEARER

necessary publicity was

#wave

of scandalmengering which spread with lightning rapidity to the Con- tment and across the Atlantic

the

Thousands of unpleasant anony mous letters poured in

upon. Duke of Kent, Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Allen's ex-M.P.

husband. Lust

Saturday night, the situation was so dimcult that a state-

Departmen!

Press

Palace's

By A Selence Correspondent ment in all the Sunday papers.

Explaining, as we have seen, that If Scotland is on the move, as a fantastle whispering campaign" using "deep distress to the suggested in London newspapers was wamily, the announcement

Royal so also may be all the continents revealed that the Allens have been and Islands which make up the close friends of the Kents for years, that Mrs. Allen had called round to land surface of the earth.

The first real test of this theory of see the Duchess and her new baby "continental drift" is due to be made when the Duke, "acting on a mo- in 1942. The theory, which was ad-mentory impulse," offered to drive vanced by the late Professor Wegener, Mrs. Allen to the phrenologist's. Is that all the continents were once one, and that they are in

literal

sense islands floating and drifting on a sea of less rigid rock.

In support of the former continuity of Europe and North America, Pro fessor Wegener pointed out that the rocks of the Hebrides have their coun- terpart in Canada; and that rock formations characteristic of the once

Appalachian Mountains

lofty

New

England are to be found also in both the Highlands of Scotland and in Devon and Cornwall, as

as well as on the Continent of Europe.

Europe and North America were

A

"In

RE

SOLAR ENERGY

IN WIDER USE

Sun's Raya Put Into New Harness In Many Parts of World

Berkeley, Feb, 10,

More than ever before in the his- tory of the world, direct solar energy is being harnessed for commercial, Industrial and practical uses of heat, the University of California reveals.-

In this state alone, it is announced, there are now in successful opera- tion several thousand solar water heaters, while a considerable num- Ber of solar heating plants have been developed and perfected,

***While California offers an unusual opportunity for harnessing solar energy for everyday practical uses because of the large amount of sun- shine here, the survey just completed by the university indicates the sub- stantial progress also is being made In other parts of the world.

Two of the most highly developed types of apparatus, the university says have been perfected for harness- ing solar energy are now in use in foreign countries. At the Zeiss Lens Werks in Germany, the apparatus includes

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However, in Egypt, the university announces, a plant is in operatión where large parabolic.reflectors are used to generute steam for a pump- ing plant. It is the high cost of fuel in Egypt that justifies the expense in installing such an apparatus. In one year this solar power plant produced TOMORROW 12 pounds of steam per hour, per 100 square feet of interception area. A Paramount

Comedy---

"However, it is in California, the university has found, that the great- est "variety solar water heaters has been developed and that the TOBL

practical and widesprend adaptation to everyday needs has been mode.

At Davis, Cal., for instance, u de- hydrator operator draws -replace- ment air through about 200 feet of Idle B-inch irrigation pipe laid in the sun to reduce the heating cost. It is the development and use of up- paratus for utilizing solar energy for healing water to moderate tempera- tures for domestic use that has proved most economical in California in comparison with other system 'of water heaters,

Mr. Allen's feelings were not men-

For purely domestic and house- tiened in the announcement. But which he protested thus: Monday's Times

hold purposes. apparatus has been contained a letter in

developed that will give water at

of 140 degrees at all temperature connection with the Press

times with only solar energy, as the initiated as a result of persecution intur

source of heat. and utterly harmless visit of my wife to a phrenologist In company with a member Royal Family... my mother-in- law, on elderly lady living alone, has been reduced to a state of nervous exhaustion by the relent- less attentions of reporters, I have now arranged for her protection. "Any further Press visitors will

of the

the Inst continents, according to Pro- have a warm reception." fessor Wegener, to part company, this The London paper ought to be having happened (on his own ashamed of itself.

But it is probably chronology) somewhere hetween suffering no more from twinges of 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.

TIME MEASUREMENTS

self-reproach than are the Socialist polttlefans who are trying to work up a national crisis out of the dock- From this the average annual yard dismissals.

Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of "drift" can be in turn worlted out,

the Admiralty, has categorically the movements in the case of Green land being of the order of 50 feet stated in Parliament that it is "m- á year westwards. The detection of possible, in the Interests of the. the suggested casi-west movement security of the State" to disclose the demands an accurate comparison of nature of the alleged offence leading Greenwich and local times, and where to the discharge of the five men, an ocean has to be spanned wireless But officials of the trade unions of which they are members are press- time signals are essential. For the

measurements, however, an ing, with thinly velled threats, for a ordinary instead.

The publie has a pretty good idea The Arst measurements made in of what that inquiry would reveal, Greenland, based on the direct re- and so, probably, have Malayan ception of European time, were taken readers of this letter.

Scotton alegraph line could be used public Inquiry,

In 1022, and it is considered that a But, apparently, boll: Mr.. Attlee, 20-year interval will be necessary be leader of his Majesty's Opposition in fore conclusions can usefully be the House of Commons, and Mr. Ernest Bevin, head of the Transport drawn.

Wegener's theory, first envisaged in and General Workers' Union, have 2010, has not yet been olther proved not. In their blissful Ignorance they or abandoned.

are prepared to make trouble unless The most serious objection to the the whole truth is told to all the Wegener theory is the difficulty of wor

world. anding any force big enough to set

So, if the Government gives way the continents, moving..

A more you may shortly hear interesting claborate form of the Wegener theory, facts about what the Admiralty de in which this difficulty was largely Anes, for the moment, as "disloyalty" removed, was lately put forward by in the dockyards which are working Professor W. Watts before the Britian night and day to build the British Association.

flect up to war strength,

Another type, which has been patented, and which ranks as steam generators and high-temperature absorbers, can be used for heating baking ovens to temperatures of 380 to 400 degrees These are of the parabolic reflector type,

Initial Cost Small

The university in conducting ex- tensive experiments with the new solar energy water heaters, because of the economy in the initial cost and the fact that there will be no opcra- tion costs.

According to estimates, the initial factory cost of a non-freeze com- mercial water heater with special tank is about $3 per gallon capacity. The installed prices, including insul ation, extra - pipe and fittings and tobour, is about $5 per gallon. The university, estimates that these new solar energy water heaters will hove a useful life of about 18. years,

Other types, the university says, can be obtained at prices ranging from 60 cents to $3 a gallon of capa- elfy,

For one aspect of the new solar energy water healing systems, the university assumes full responsibi lity, and that is that there will never be a lack of solar energy reaching the earth's surface, although this may vary in different sintes accord- ing to the amount of sunshine, ar dust, smoke and other obstacles in the air. It estimates that every square mile of ground in California receives during each clear summer day about as much energy as can be produced by all the power plants of one of the largest electric utility systems In the "slato,

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